On July 16, the deadline set aside by the Ukrainian state for citizens
to update their military registration data expires. Against thebackground of escalating state coercion, we are reprinting material
about the intensification of anti-war protests in Ukraine, which
appeared on the website of Kharkov anarchists "Assembly". ----
Throughout the Gulag darkness in the middle of Europe, the people's war
against war is spreading. The heirs of the freedom-loving Cossacks,
Makhnovists, rebels Karmalyuk and Dovbush respond with their own
violence to the violence of the heirs of the NKVD, the Gestapo and
Pinochet's death squads. And we are only on the verge of opening a
full-scale capture of those liable for military service, which is
expected after July 16.
The review does not include regular arson attacks on relay cabinets,
electrical substations and military vehicles, because not only Ukrainian
security forces, but also a number of independent sources link them to
Russian recruiters looking for easy money. It is unlikely that anyone in
their right mind would feel sorry for a burnt minibus, which could have
taken them or someone close to them to a torture basement, but what is
the point of changing the name of these basements from "TCK" to "FSB"?
Also not included are peaceful rallies against pixel butchers-murderers,
road closures and simply saving people from them by caring people by
pushing and shoving or making noise.
Especially for the Western audience, who read "Assembly" through an
automatic translator, and therefore sometimes distort our texts in their
retellings: we do not advertise radical actions, nor do we seek to
demotivate those who practice them. The fact that those who call for
such things must do them personally is one of the foundations of the
ethics of revolutionary anarchism since the century before last. For the
media, this is an important indicator of the mood of the population,
beginning to rise from a bottle of non-malice.
The Aurora shot that started this wave of attacks can be called an F-1
grenade that flew into the private yard of a TCC employee in Cherkasy
Zhashkiv on the night of December 25. The explosion damaged a fence and
a gas pipe. His neighbor is the mayor of the city, so it is unknown
which of them was the target. This was followed by about 40 other
episodes, which we will first list and then analyze. We did not make
infographics, because in a couple of days they may already be out of date.
So, on February 6, in the Hutsul village of Kosmach in Ivano-Frankivsk
Oblast (the place where the legendary "Robin Hood" Oleksa Dovbush died),
a group of women surrounded the arriving TCC workers, saying that they
"would be beaten." Due to rumors that had spread around the village that
a raid on men was planned, the women went out to protest, to prevent it,
and to demand "fair mobilization." In the center of the village, they
began to stop vehicles, including 24-year-old Ivanna Hrepinyak, who was
traveling with her 6-year-old daughter. The protesters said that she was
filming their action on her phone. They began to drag her out of the
car, tear out her hair, and take away her car keys. According to
Hrepinyak, the protesters accused her of being a "TCC tipster" and of
having come to hand over local men to them. The protesters only left
after someone shouted that this was not the car they were waiting for.
Most of those gathered ran to the car that drove up behind them, at
which time Ivanna was able to leave Kosmach. Doctors diagnosed the girl
with a soft tissue contusion of the nose, and her mother with a probable
closed craniocerebral injury. According to the residents of Kosmach, the
communication with the driver was polite and it was Grepinyak who began
to insult those who had argued, swore obscenely, provoked, and
subsequently ran over one of the protesters on the leg.
On February 8, Deputy Mayor Vitaly Zhuravlev was killed in Nikopol: at
least 20 shots were fired at his car. An unemployed 33-year-old resident
of Nikopol was detained, allegedly shooting him because of suspicions of
corruption. His machine gun, cartridges and a grenade were confiscated,
and he was taken into custody on suspicion of premeditated murder (Part
2 of Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The police claim that
he was also preparing assassination attempts on other city officials.
A true symbol of resistance to state terror was the story of March 7 in
the village of Ploska, about 5 km from the border with Romania in the
Chernivtsi region. In the viral video, two TCC members talk to a
horseman holding an axe in his hands - an ancient Hutsul weapon on which
those joining the oprishki squads swore allegiance. The famous yellow
Niva hits one of the pixelated ones, then the driver gets out and hits
him in the forearm with the butt of the axe. His partner also hit him in
the shoulder with the butt. Having smashed the windows of the enemy car,
the men fled. Local residents aged 28 and 43 were taken into custody
under Part 4 of Article 296 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism under
especially aggravating circumstances) without the right to post bail.
According to the cops, they came to the checkpoint themselves and
provoked the conflict. These are two brothers, their sister said that
one of them lost his son in the war. He went to the TCC, but was beaten
and threatened there. And when they met again, the man decided to take
revenge. The second brother served in Donbas from 2015 to 2018.
According to the lawyer, he was shell-shocked.
On the evening of the same March 7, in the Kharkiv suburb of Malaya
Rogan, a drunk 25-year-old resident threw an RGD-5 under the car of a
31-year-old military woman with whom he had a long-standing hostile
relationship. Her Kia Sorento parked near the house was damaged by the
explosion, no one else was hurt. As the "Assembly" found out then, this
woman is Maryana Malykhina, she had previously terrorized the community,
beating up neighbors and locking them in the basement. The detainee was
informed of suspicion under the same Part 4 of Article 296 of the
Criminal Code.
On March 21, in Novovolynsk, Volyn Oblast, two TCC workers raided a
50-year-old man's dormitory for failing to appear in response to a
summons. He stabbed one of them twice: the first blow was blocked, the
second hit him in the stomach. After that, he allegedly tried to cut his
veins; an ambulance was called to the scene. A criminal case was opened
under Part 1 of Article 121 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (causing
grievous bodily harm).
Around midnight on March 24, in Svetlovodsk, Kirovograd Oblast, two
bottles of Molotov cocktails were thrown at the facade of the building
of the first department of the Alexandria District Shopping and
Entertainment Center. The fire that broke out was quickly extinguished
by employees. The attacker faces 3 to 10 years in prison.
On March 29, in the Shepetovsky district of the Khmelnytsky region, an
angry crowd of women smashed the windows of a minibus during the
distribution of summonses. The Izyaslavsky District Court fined the
laundry machinist at the Berezka preschool institution, who explained
the glass smashing by worrying about her mobilized son, for petty
hooliganism 85 hryvnia (essentially the cost of her stick).
Also in March, a 56-year-old resident of the Carpathians hit a TCC
worker on the head who had come into a bus to hand out summonses,
causing moderate injuries. This was reported this month by the
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office; he is being tried under Part
2 of Article 350 of the Criminal Code.
On April 6, in the Kherson region, a sergeant of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine fired a machine gun at his commander with the rank of major
after his commander refused to grant him leave. "The bullet hit the
ceiling. No one was hurt. After what happened, the sergeant who opened
fire had his machine gun taken away and was sent to a psychiatric
center, but he managed to escape on the way. At the moment, the soldier
is wanted," one of the Ukrainian publics reported.
Also on April 6, Desnyansky district of Kyiv: during a conversation
between a TCC patrol and a passerby, Timofey Molderf, born in 1972,
approached one of them from behind and struck him on the head, after
which he took a knife out of his bag and tried to stab another
participant in the raid.
April 20, near the village of Chornoguzy, Chernivtsi region: two
civilians knocked a TCC employee to the ground during an alert. The
vehicle was blocked, he fired a pistol into the ground, but for some
time they did not allow him to enter the car.
On the evening of May 3, in the town of Vinogradov in Zakarpattia, about
10 people of Roma ethnicity gathered at the entrance to the TCC and
tried to force open the gates, protesting the mobilization of two of
their fellow villagers. The officers fired into the air; the next day,
video footage was released of the women who took part in the assault
apologizing.
The evening of the same May 3 in Zaporozhye: at the call of the wife of
Yevgeny Butenko, who was detained by the cops at home that day because
he was allegedly wanted, a crowd of residents came to the TCC. There
they shouted: "Let all the people out of the basement!", "You should
protect us, not kidnap us!" The police surrounded the building to
prevent people from getting inside. The three-hour rally was broadcast
on the YouTube channel of local activists of the "living people" movement.
On the night of May 12, in the same Zaporozhye, someone threw two
Molotov cocktails at the Shevchenko Shopping Center building. They did
not catch fire; a case of terrorist attack was opened under Part 1 of
Article 358 of the Criminal Code.
On May 14, cops announced the arrest of an organized group of "living
people" in this city, consisting of five people who are accused of
spreading disinformation about the mobilization: activists spoke about
its illegality and filmed abductions. At least one of the detainees was
brutally beaten.
On May 16, in the city of Turka in Lviv region, a cop stopped a resident
of Volyn who had left home and was hiding from mobilization in the
forest for two weeks. He punched him in the face three times and tried
to run away. The policeman caught up with him near his car and received
several more kicks to the body. The court placed him under 24-hour house
arrest.
May 18, Sinelnikovo in Dnipropetrovsk region: TSK workers were
transporting private security guard Alexander Sadovsky, born in 1975, in
the back seat of the car; during the ride, he pulled out a knife and
held it to the throat of one of them. The other tried to take the knife
away and was stabbed in the arm. The same day in the regional center,
Dnipro: unknown people in black attacked a military medic sitting in a
camouflaged minibus, saying "TSK faggot", blew gas from a canister
through an open window, broke his face and glasses.
Also on the afternoon of May 18, in the village of Bolgan in Vinnytsia
Oblast, border guards noticed a man attempting to cross the
Ukrainian-Moldovan border outside the checkpoint. During the arrest, a
resident of Kyiv born in 1990 hit one of them, then used a gas canister
and tried to take away his service weapon. One of the border guards
fired two warning shots and then shot him in the legs; he was hospitalized.
On May 22, an incident in the Kharkiv district of Novi Doma caused a lot
of noise. According to the Kharkiv Regional TCC, during the notification
of citizens, several "as yet unidentified persons" attacked a soldier of
the security company, who allegedly received stitches on a bruised wound
near the temple. At the same time, in the video one can only notice that
the camouflage company was using obscene language to insult a woman, and
the man who stood up for her had his face smashed. The sound of a bolt
being pulled could be heard.
On May 25, it became known that the border patrol at the Delovoye-Bogdan
section in the Zakarpattia region responded to the activation of a
signal mine. After detecting two men near the border, the border guard
fired two warning shots into the air; they attacked him and took his
Fort-12R pistol. During the escape, they allegedly fired 5 times in his
direction, but missed. By the time reinforcements arrived, they had
already crossed the border. They were detained by Romanian border
guards. The media reported that these were two Ukrainian citizens,
residents of the Zaporizhia region - A.S. Boyarko, born in 1988, and
R.M. Nezhizhim, born in 1993. As of May 26, a request for their
extradition was being prepared. A criminal case was opened under the
articles on intentional violence against a law enforcement officer and
on theft.
Night of May 27: the entrance to the TCC in the Nemyshlyansky and
Industrial districts of Kharkov was set on fire with a Molotov cocktail.
The video shows the same leaflet "TCC burn" as during the arson of
military vehicles in other cities (here and here), which suggests that
there are common curators.
But on June 6, at 9:30 p.m., they tried to set fire to the Kyivsky
District Shopping Mall in Kharkov. "A man set fire to a rag and placed
it near the window of the military registration and enlistment office. A
fire started, which was noticed by the duty officer. The soldier managed
to put it out right away. The window was damaged. A criminal case was
opened. The arsonist faces three to ten years in prison." In this case,
there are too few details to assess how likely it is that there were
customers.
Night of May 30: in Cherkasy Oblast, someone threw an F-1 grenade again,
this time into the yard of a sergeant of the 4th department of the
Zvenigorod district TCC in the village of Katerynopil. The explosion
damaged the facade of a house and a car. As in Zhashkov, a criminal case
was opened under the article on hooliganism.
On May 31, two passersby injured a TCC employee in Kharkov. "After the
senior alert group, sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, introduced
himself to these citizens and asked them to provide military documents,
they launched an attack, holding a club and an aerosol can with a
viscous speech." He sought medical help; The police quickly detained one
of the guys. The identity of the other was unknown at the time of press
release.
On June 4, the police and the shopping mall raided the market in the
Korabelny district of Kherson. One guy refused to provide documents and
began to behave aggressively. "At that moment, preventing the police
from checking the documents of her 23-year-old son, the woman bit the
policeman's hand. Taking advantage of the moment, the man fled." Other
people, mainly women and pensioners, began to fight with the uninvited
guests and throw tomatoes at them. The guy's 60-year-old mother faces
criminal liability for attacking a policeman.
On June 10, in Merefa near Kharkov, a certain citizen allegedly rudely
refused to show documents to military commissariat officers. According
to the press service of the regional TCC, after this, several other
people approached and struck them several times, including "swinging an
object similar to a club." One of the participants in the raid allegedly
received bodily injuries. But the recording only shows their "defense
against the attackers," i.e. beating the guy and, apparently, his
mother, and also that the stick was probably taken away from the
disabled man.
On June 11, an ambulance driver came to the Kyivsky district TCC of
Odessa to update his data, but they decided not to let him go. He
complained about his high blood pressure and called an ambulance. The
team arrived on call, but they also refused to let them out of the
building. Other teams came to help their colleagues, engaging in a
battle with the TCC workers and their civilian-dressed assistants. The
medics were released, but a criminal case was opened under Part 4 of
Article 296 of the Criminal Code.
On June 11, in Knizhkivtsi near Khmelnitsky, a man born in 1984. stabbed
one of the meat producers. "During the hour of checking the documents,
the man launched a devastating attack on the military service from the
alert group. He was wounded on his left shoulder and side of his back.
Upon arrival of the police and inspection of the speeches, it was
discovered that the man had a blocked speech and a Taser. The police
accused the attacker of committing a clever, light bodily assault.
"Sledchs dii are on the rise," reports the press service of the regional
TCC. Another colleague of his was beaten on the same day during a
document check on the territory of the Advis plant in Khmelnitsky.
On June 19, in Krivoy Rog, a patrolman stopped a 39-year-old passerby to
check his documents; he turned out to be a draft dodger and used a can
of spray against the policeman. He was detained and charged under Part 2
of Article 345 of the Criminal Code (resistance to a government official).
On June 21, in the Lutsk suburb of Lipina, a guy spectacularly attacked
two TCC workers and filled them with gas; They did not need medical
attention. Operational Command "West" stated: "Individuals who so
heroically rushed at active military forces have already been ordered to
suffer severe punishment. We also want to go berserk to everyone who
wants to play with gas cans: the time has long since come to fight and
seize the land and homeland." But wasn't that what he was protecting
from them?
On June 17, in Lviv's Yavoriv, a TCC worker named Yuriy accompanied a
citizen to undergo a VLK, but was hospitalized after being hit on the
head with a heavy blunt object. The attacker was detained the same day.
The Kharkiv Regional TCC reported on June 23 that two days earlier in
Lozovsky District, a senior alert group officer asked a man for his
military registration documents, to which he responded by causing bodily
harm to the officer. What kind of harm exactly is not stated. A criminal
case has been opened, and the attacker has fled.
On June 24, a conscript also attacked an officer of the Kovel district
TCC during an alert in Shatsk, but the press service of the Volyn
regional TCC reported only that he faces 3 to 5 years in prison. The
Chernivtsi regional TCC wrote on the same day that a certain person
handed over to them after an attempt to illegally cross the border,
while sitting in the back seat, inflicted bodily harm on them and tried
to strangle the driver with a seat belt. There are no other details.
Also on June 24, footage of one of the numerous arsons of military
commissariat officers' cars in Odessa was published. Unlike other
similar attacks, this one clearly explained the motives for choosing the
target: "An employee of one of the local TCCs has become so brazen that
he did not hesitate to buy himself a rather expensive BMW. The extreme
brazenness consisted in the fact that this character did not disdain to
hang black numbers on the car, as if shouting: "Look how cool I am! Fear
me!" Well, we looked. And by the way, we appreciated it. The fire was
bright and pathetic. While you, TCC devils, are making money off the
blood of Odessans, walk around and look around. We know all of you. And
those we don't know yet, we will definitely find out. And your cars are
just a prelude. We will ask for every Odessan!"
On June 30, it was reported that in the Chernivtsi region, guards shot
dead an alleged attacker. "The incident happened yesterday at about
10:00 p.m. A border patrol noticed two men who were about 300 meters
from the border with Romania. When the border guards tried to detain the
draft dodgers, one of them sprayed tear gas in the direction of the
border guards, and the second took out a machete and hit one of the
soldiers in the leg. At that time, one of the border guards took out his
service pistol and fired several shots in the direction of the
attackers, hitting one in the leg and the other in the head. The man,
who received a bullet wound to the head, died at the scene from his
injuries." This is the official version. "Personally, it is difficult
for me to imagine why the violators would be the first to attack a lone
border guard if their goal is to escape to Romania? It is more likely
that there was an attempt to detain them, as a result of which one
fugitive was killed and the other wounded. "But whether they had the
said items with them and what the real circumstances of this tragedy
were, we will hardly know now," noted Odessa left-wing activist and
historian Vyacheslav Azarov.
On the evening of July 2, a junior sergeant of one of the assault units,
who was on vacation in Odessa, was hospitalized with a severe
craniocerebral injury, a fractured face and skull, and an intracranial
hemorrhage. According to local media, he and his comrade were walking
around Arcadia and asking men they met if they had served in the army.
His companion was also injured in the ensuing fight. The 35-year-old
suspect was soon detained and charged with causing grievous bodily harm.
He was sent to a pretrial detention center.
On July 3, volunteer Artur Ariev, who heads the capital's "Dike Pole
2022" foundation, showed the results of the destruction of their
minibus. Unknown people broke the rear window, tore out the mirrors and
slashed the tires.
On the afternoon of July 4, Hutsulshchyna distinguished itself again -
this time, the popular resort of Vorokhta in the Ivano-Frankivsk region.
Due to complaints from the population that tourists did not want to come
because of forced mobilization, a conflict broke out at a checkpoint. A
crowd of civilians went to the car of the Verkhovyna district TCC, one
could hear: "We have had enough of this in two months, go to Bukovel",
"Don't disgrace the uniform, beat them up!" Then, as far as one can
understand, the car tried to drive through the crowd; several women
screamed that they had been run over. The car was pushed to the side of
the road and they started beating it, the door was broken down, the TCC
worker himself also got it. You can see how he is sitting in the car and
holding his head, a pharaoh is standing next to him and trying to calm
the crowd. He was diagnosed with a chemical burn, as well as damage to
the soft tissues of the nose and face. Two criminal cases have been
opened - for hooliganism and obstructing the activities of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine. Social networks also say that the families of the
military are also refusing to go on vacation in the mountains due to
fear of the population. "We wanted to go with the squad on vacation to
one of the estates in Vorokhta. Now we are not planning to," BBC News
Ukraine quotes serviceman Alexander Rudomanov, who made this decision
when he saw the attitude of the locals towards the meat-packing plants.
After the riot, the checkpoint was removed, but the regional TCC
promised to continue checking documents.
What conclusions can be drawn here? First of all, the geography of
anti-war direct action largely intersects with the map of the
social-revolutionary history of Ukraine. The partisans-oprishki who
fought against serfdom in the Carpathians have already been mentioned;
in Cherkasy region, Makhno's ally, the Chigirin ataman Kotsur, who was
close in views to the Ukrainian Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, fought
against the nationalists-Kholodnoyarovites; one of the central streets
of Kharkov in 1918 was even named after Anarchy. And the richest
anarchist heritage in Ukrainian history belongs to the Zaporizhzhya and
Dnepropetrovsk regions, along with the city of Odessa...
Secondly, with the opening of the total hunting season for those liable
for military service, there is much talk about the fact that men should
no longer go out into the streets with bare hands. This issue is also
addressed in the Manifesto of a draft dodger, which was sent to the
"Assembly" by an anonymous reader: " We want universal armament of the
people. Uncontrolled circulation of weapons has its serious costs, but
at this stage it seems to us that an armed people is a guarantee that
our people's will will always and in any situation be strictly
implemented, and that no one will be able to pass off their personal
interests as ours, shutting people's mouths and forbidding them to
express their will. When the people are armed, no mobilizer will dare to
treat people the way they do now, because their lawlessness is connected
only with the fact that they are not punished for any violent actions
against civilians, and civilians are punished for the slightest
manifestation of disobedience. Their behavior is therefore cowardice of
the highest form, the cowardice of a scoundrel who pounces on his victim
only because he knows that she is helpless before him ."
There have already been some steps in this direction. The left-wing
anti-war Telegram channel "Ne Molchi Odesa" (not to be confused with
"Typical Odesa," which it calls FSB) has been sending out gas canisters
to people in need since the end of January this year. Its admin, who
lives in the European Union, explains to us:
" At one time before the Covid pandemic, I had an online store of
self-defense tools, selling everything from knives and flappers, air
guns, to illegal tools. Then the store was closed, as I was busy with
other projects. By the way, I had some props left at home in the form of
knives, brass knuckles and cylinders.
I probably would not have remembered them if the police had not found
these boxes during a search of my apartment at the beginning of the war.
Then I gave them the cylinders as a gift, since the police have as few
cylinders on their balance sheet as civilians do now. One day, during
another conversation with colleagues, we thought that it would be great
to hand out legal means of self-defense for free to ordinary Ukrainians
and Odessans. Firstly, it is not punishable by law and we can do it on
behalf of the Civil Defense, and secondly, it is not fatal, it will not
harm anyone, at least there have been no such cases. It is not expensive
and for the population it gives at least some confidence, against the
background of this lawlessness. In the first batch, we handed out about
500+ cylinders in all districts of Odessa. Today this figure has
exceeded one and a half thousand. And we are not going to stop.
Naturally, we publish cases of the use of gas cylinders on the channel .
With more serious means of self-defense, the situation is a little
different. " Buying a gun is not difficult at all. A machine gun costs
three rubles, a pistol costs 1,500, last year we went to Stary Saltov to
buy from the military, but if the cops find it, it's a criminal offense
for 5 years, no less. That's in hryvnia. The guy took two AKs, I'm
scared, I already had a similar conviction. There's a very fine line
between 156 and 157, I jumped from 157 to 156, I don't remember the
points, but they were easy. They sold everything from boots to thermal
imagers, or asked one of the locals to go to a pawnshop in Kharkov for a
cut. These are trophies, there was a lot of them there. There was a
whole sale there - generators, cartridges, uniforms. Many people got
hold of genes, boots, cartridges. I wouldn't mess with the military or
rifles now, even if they accidentally find them, they can knock you off,
or charge you with an article, put you in jail anyway, plus they'll
torture you, asking you what you need all this for. By the way, I heard
about a case where a guy in Kupyansk in 22 collected weapons abandoned
by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in a barn, then when the Russians found
them, they beat him up and sent him to the FSB. The FSB kept him in
suspense for a month, then let him go. The arsenal, of course, was taken
away ," says a mechanic from one of Kharkov's municipal enterprises.
The main question is: is there much sense in universal arming in
megacities, where everyone is on their own and everyone can be easily
caught one by one, even if they are armed? Well, back in mid-May, some
cities - at least Kiev, Lviv and Uzhgorod - reported that men were
uniting in groups of 10-15-20 people to go to stores and other public
places. People who do not know each other, just live in the neighborhood
and contacted through home chats. The result is that neither the police
nor the shopping center even look in their direction. Will this happen
after the 60-day period for updating credentials expires - we will see
very soon.
Glory to the warriors, to the formidable trenches! Everything will be
awesome!
Source:
https://assembly.org.ua/vojna-protiv-vojny-napadeniya-na-tczk-i-drugih-predstavitelej-vlasti-razgorayutsya-po-strane-glavnye-momenty/
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